Lines 1-3: Tuolumne snow cover mapping (PI: C. Jones). Lines 4-16: San Andreas Fault earthquake mapping (PI: Z. Liu).
PPA not calibrating on ground, delayed flight 1.3 hours until fixed, used PS2 when radar hit red limit, also had to kill power on JBOD (alarm sounding), system recovered in the air without killing primary power. Ship's GPS #2 inop from before taxi. Aborted flight with bad PPA, collected lines 1-4 but 2 and 3 were out of the tube for a third to half of the runs. Planned to do lines 1-13. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Take off from KPMD, (34.6291666666667, -118.084444444444) Time to first PRE Waupoint: 26 - 36 min | approx distance traveled: 348 km ============================================================================== InSAR line. Tuolumne snow off flight lines. LEAD N 37 33.61 W 118 45.57 | NAV1 N 37 41.43 | | 31610PRE W 118 54.95 | 41000 ft GPS | 237<430 kts <741 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- NAV2 N 38 25.87 | | 31610POS W 119 48.98 | 41000 ft GPS | 237<430 kts <741 ============================================================================== Time elapsed: 35 - 50 min | approx distance traveled: 462 km ============================================================================== InSAR line. Tuolumne snow off flight lines. LEAD N 37 53.36 W 120 9.30 | NAV3 N 37 51.37 | | 10104PRE W 119 55.89 | 41000 ft GPS | 237<430 kts <741 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- NAV4 N 37 43.63 | | 10104POS W 119 5.05 | 41000 ft GPS | 237<430 kts <741 ============================================================================== Time elapsed: 45 - 65 min | approx distance traveled: 602 km ============================================================================== InSAR line. Tuolumne snow off flight lines. LEAD N 38 0.76 W 118 41.65 | NAV5 N 38 1.02 | | 27110PRE W 118 55.31 | 41000 ft GPS | 237<430 kts <741 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- NAV6 N 38 1.70 | | 27110POS W 119 39.04 | 41000 ft GPS | 237<430 kts <741 ============================================================================== Time elapsed: 53 - 78 min | approx distance traveled: 702 km ============================================================================== InSAR line. Central San Andreas Fault rapid response. LEAD N 37 19.37 W 120 45.61 | NAV7 N 37 12.79 | | 23023PRE W 120 55.48 | 41000 ft GPS | 339<430 kts <741 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- NAV8 N 36 24.06 | | 23023POS W 122 7.07 | 41000 ft GPS | 339<430 kts <741 ============================================================================== Time elapsed: 74 - 104 min | approx distance traveled: 986 km ============================================================================== InSAR line. Central San Andreas Fault rapid response. LEAD N 36 2.81 W 122 16.64 | NAV9 N 36 9.43 | | 05024PRE W 122 6.96 | 41000 ft GPS | 339<430 kts <741 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- NAV10 N 36 57.63 | | 05024POS W 120 55.13 | 41000 ft GPS | 339<430 kts <741 ============================================================================== Time elapsed: 87 - 122 min | approx distance traveled: 1152 km ============================================================================== Landing at KPMD, 34.629167 -118.084444 Total flight time: 114 - 164 min | Total approx distance: 1516 km ==============================================================================